{"id":"CVE-2022-48922","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-48922","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:39:38.354Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: fix oops caused by irqsoff latency tracer The trace_hardirqs_{on,off}() require the caller to setup frame pointer properly.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: fix oops caused by irqsoff latency tracer\n\nThe trace_hardirqs_{on,off}() require the caller to setup frame pointer\nproperly. This because these two functions use macro 'CALLER_ADDR1' (aka.\n__builtin_return_address(1)) to acquire caller info. If the $fp is used\nfor other purpose, the code generated this macro (as below) could trigger\nmemory access fault.\n\n   0xffffffff8011510e <+80>:    ld      a1,-16(s0)\n   0xffffffff80115112 <+84>:    ld      s2,-8(a1)  # <-- paging fault here\n\nThe oops message during booting if compiled with 'irqoff' tracer enabled:\n[    0.039615][    T0] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000f8\n[    0.041925][    T0] Oops [#1]\n[    0.042063][    T0] Modules linked in:\n[    0.042864][    T0] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc1-00233-g9a20c48d1ed2 #29\n[    0.043568][    T0] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\n[    0.044343][    T0] epc : trace_hardirqs_on+0x56/0xe2\n[    0.044601][    T0]  ra : restore_all+0x12/0x6e\n[    0.044721][    T0] epc : ffffffff80126a5c ra : ffffffff80003b94 sp : ffffffff81403db0\n[    0.044801][    T0]  gp : ffffffff8163acd8 tp : ffffffff81414880 t0 : 0000000000000020\n[    0.044882][    T0]  t1 : 0098968000000000 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffff81403de0\n[    0.044967][    T0]  s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : 0000000000000001 a1 : 0000000000000100\n[    0.045046][    T0]  a2 : 0000000000000000 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000\n[    0.045124][    T0]  a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000054494d45\n[    0.045210][    T0]  s2 : ffffffff80003b94 s3 : ffffffff81a8f1b0 s4 : ffffffff80e27b50\n[    0.045289][    T0]  s5 : ffffffff81414880 s6 : ffffffff8160fa00 s7 : 00000000800120e8\n[    0.045389][    T0]  s8 : 0000000080013100 s9 : 000000000000007f s10: 0000000000000000\n[    0.045474][    T0]  s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : 7fffffffffffffff t4 : 0000000000000000\n[    0.045548][    T0]  t5 : 0000000000000000 t6 : ffffffff814aa368\n[    0.045620][    T0] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 00000000000000f8 cause: 000000000000000d\n[    0.046402][    T0] [<ffffffff80003b94>] restore_all+0x12/0x6e\n\nThis because the $fp(aka. $s0) register is not used as frame pointer in the\nassembly entry code.\n\n\tresume_kernel:\n\t\tREG_L s0, TASK_TI_PREEMPT_COUNT(tp)\n\t\tbnez s0, restore_all\n\t\tREG_L s0, TASK_TI_FLAGS(tp)\n                andi s0, s0, _TIF_NEED_RESCHED\n                beqz s0, restore_all\n                call preempt_schedule_irq\n                j restore_all\n\nTo fix above issue, here we add one extra level wrapper for function\ntrace_hardirqs_{on,off}() so they can be safely called by low level entry\ncode.","published":"2024-08-22T02:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:16:37.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00207,"percentile":0.10673,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1851b9a467065b18ec2cba156eea345206df1c8f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22e2100b1b07d6f5acc71cc1acb53f680c677d77","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e2dbc31e367d08ee299a0d8aeb498cb2e12a1c3","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5e180490db4af8c0f80c4b65ee482d333d0e8ee","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48922","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}